What is a cicada?

Cicada, commonly known as cicada. Cicada in dog days is commonly known as "cicada in dog days" and was often called "cicada" in pre-Qin period. The cicada in autumn is called jiāng, or "chilling cicada".

The original meaning of cicada is "the insect that is good at singing", and cicada is mentioned in many poems in The Book of Songs, such as July: "April is beautiful, May is singing [tiá o]"; "Dang": "Like a cockroach [táng], boiling like soup"; "Little Brother": "Baliu Temple, Yi [Hu]".

Because of the regularity of cicada singing, the ancients designated it as the second phase of the "three phases" of the summer solstice solar term, that is, "cicada began to sing"

A summer without cicadas is incomplete. According to the Book of Rites, cicadas began to sing on the midsummer moon. The chirping cicada "cicada, cicada" seems to be enchanted, which makes people fall into a warm and lazy dream.